Daria Martin

Daria Martin (born 1973) is a contemporary American artist and filmmaker based in London since 2002. Working primarily in 16mm film,^[1] her work has been exhibited at the Hammer Museum, The New Museum,^[2] the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.^[3] Martin's 16mm films address the space between disparate states of being–levels of consciousness, the internal and the external, and the body, mind, and object–working to unravel viewer's learned habits of perception.^[4] Martin's films also often explore the differences and similarities between other artistic mediums including painting, performance, dance, and sculpture.^[5] Some subjects Martin's work touches on include dreams, feminism, sensation, mythology, and mirror-touch synesthesia.

Biography

Daria Martin was born in San Francisco, CA. Martin earned a BA in humanities from Yale University (1995), and an MFA from UCLA (2000). She is represented by Maureen Paley Gallery in London.

Films

• In the Palace (2000)
• Birds (2001)
• Closeup Gallery (2003)
• Soft Materials (2004)
• Loneliness and the Modern Pentathlon (2004-2005)
• Wintergarden (2005)
• Harpstrings and Lava (2007)
• Minotaur (2008)
• One of the Things that Makes Me Doubt (2010-2011)
• Sensorium Tests (2012)

Collections

Martin's work is in the collections of the Tate, and Kadist Art Foundation.

Awards and residencies

• 2012 - Leverhulme Network Award, The Leverhulme Trust, London.
• 2010 - Wellcome Trust Arts Award, London.
• 2009 - Philip Leverhulme Prize, The Leverhume Trust, London.
• 2008 - Wellcome Trust Arts Award, London.
• 2008 - Artist in residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
• 2007 - Artist in residence, The Watermill Center, New York.
• 2002 - Artist in residence, Delfina Studios Trust, London.
• 1999 - Artist in residence, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris

References

External links

• dariamartin.com